locking/rwsem: Fix comment on register clobbering
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Mon, 16 May 2016 09:34:28 +0000 (11:34 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 16 May 2016 10:35:40 +0000 (12:35 +0200)
commit4544ba8c6b1743499cabb682897a469911845f15
treee3a1aa6b3d0036b8cd96dd031dd6f970a9cd525a
parent04cafed7fc19a8010771c788708ac97c405fc3de
locking/rwsem: Fix comment on register clobbering

Document explicitly that %edx can get clobbered on the slow path, on
32-bit kernels. Something I learned the hard way. :-\

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516093428.GA26108@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S